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Holocaust Survivor Wiesel Passes Away At The Age 87 Holocaust survivor and acclaimed author Elir Wiesel has passed away at the age of 87 according to CNN reports: Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author who fought for peace, human rights and simple human decency, has died at the age of 87, a spokesman for Israel’s Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, said Saturday. His family said he died peacefully Saturday after a long illness. “My husband was a fighter. He fought for the memory of the 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, and he fought for Israel. He waged countless battles for innocent victims regardless of ethnicity or creed,” his widow, Marion, said in a statement released by the writer’s foundation. Wiesel, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, recounted his family being sent to the Nazi concentration camps in his first book, “Night,” which was published in France in 1958. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lauded Wiesel as a “master of words.” Rest in peace!

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R.I.P: Holocaust Survivor And Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel Passes Away At The Age 87